NAVIGATING A WORLD OF CRIME AND TECHNOLOGY

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

NAVIGATING A WORLD OF CRIME AND TECHNOLOGY

In the present day of computers, electronically-enabled hand-held devices have entered the lives of a large number of people across the world, and certainly in India. Even walking on the roads now requires more care because people are not looking at where they are headed but at their mobiles, iPad and more. This is almost an epidemic. Such a widespread use of devices requires certain functional literacy. One needs to know of firewalls, proxy servers and intrusion detection systems. One may find oneself confronted with references like ‘white hat’, ‘black hat’ and ‘grey hat’. If one does not know about ‘phreaking’ or ‘authentication’ or ‘auditing’, one may get into trouble. One needs to understand the difference been ‘cracking’ and ‘hacking’. Indeed, it may be risky not to knowABOUT VIR– USES, spyware, adware and worms. The list is almost endless. Of course, language-teaching in school and colleges does not cover all this. The older generations have difficulties realising that ‘cookies’ do not necessarily come in jars and a ‘mouse’ is not necessarily something which digs into the wall. This has created a parallel new profession of crime. Identity-theft is common and it is attempted in various garbs. Many users of Hotmail know […]

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